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Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Twitter has updated their site rules to prohibit "behavior intended to harass, intimidate, or use fear to silence another user's voice." According to the new rules, "You may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability or disease." This follows criticism that Twitter (and other social networks) haven't done enough to prevent the ramblings of the Islamic State and other terrorist groups. "Tuesday's announcement did not disclose changes to Twitter's enforcement strategy. A company spokesman declined to say if any were in the works. The new rules also said that Twitter might respond to reports that somebody is considering 'self-harm' by contacting the person to express concern and provide contact information to mental health practitioners."
Twitter ban 'dissenting political opinions'.
So is Twitter actually banning hate speech like (Only) Black Live Matter or are they only banning the speech of white males, as everyone knows that only white males can hate anyone and that anyone advocating the eradication of law enforcement is by definition not hateful because they're a minority and minorities can't be hatemongers?
Is stupidity a disease?
The internet is finally being civilized. About time.
If you try to censor me I swear I will physically beat your Arabic, gay, Iranian, Muslim, male that identifies as a female, old, crippled ass !
So, twitter is trying to silence people under the auspices of this? Sure it's anti ISIS but it could be used for more sinister purposes...
Sometimes the "reply" tweets where someone adds me in on twitter involve morons threatening other people, especially women.
About time they banned Bill Cosby.
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Will we prevent you from silencing others by silencing you. Pray I do not alter the deal further.
Contradiction much? Twitter was always a toy anyway. Go away toy.
Seems odd you can’t voice a dissenting opinion without what amounts to threatening violence to express your political opinion. You wouldn’t be Republican would you?
I can be against all sorts of behaviors without resorting to harassment or abuse. This seems squarely aimed at intimidating replies to others or exhorting to violence. Seems this almost fall under regular law and Twitter is just enforcing it more directly.
Letter To Iran
These new rules make me feel intimidated, harassed and I'll now be silent on Twitter out of fear.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
So they are going to ban Trump?
My first thought is that twitter would implement it using a twitter bot. I think that would do more harm than good. Think about it anyone remember clippy?
I see you are contemplating self harm would you like to:
Chat with a certified chatbot?
Email twitter support?
Send a tweet with the hashtag #HELPME ?
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
...if threatening to report someone to Twitter is considered to be hateful conduct.
Prohibiting "behavior intended to harass, intimidate, or use fear to silence another user's voice"? Does that include the hate speech against muslims that has become a part of the Trump campaign's effort to get votes? The hate speech against "the great Satan" you get out of some in the middle-east? The hate speech again Israel you get out of millions of people worldwide? The hate speech against Palestine you get out of Israel? The hate speech against ISIS you get out Paris in the wake of the terrorist attacks? The hate speech against Parisian Jews you get out of Parisian Muslims?
Isolationist, anti-foreigner Joe McCarthyism, Anti-Semitism, Donald-Trumpism, there is always someone trying to use fear and hate as part of a power grab in a country's domestic political narrative. Do we really want corporate leadership at Twitter to be in charge of deciding when that's okay and when it should be censored?
Chirp chirp... sieg heil! chirp chirp...
The moment Twitter's pet SJWs run afoul of the rule will be the real test.
Muh freedomz!
Is it okay if I advocate violence against Assad or Putin or Bin Laden or any tin pot dictator? What about advocates for the very racist death penalty we have? Will they be banned? And what, they are going to have everyone hooked into the suicide hotline now? This is all very political.. Somebody is working to get people to demand the repeal of the 1st Amendment.
Eh, whatever. They are really just looking after the bottom line. It could backfire though if the censorship becomes so draconian so as to help start up some competition: The New and Improved Uncut Punk Rock Twitter!
So may I presume that all SJW's who try to silence all dissenting opinions to their ideology will be banned?
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Oh, wow, so no more "Kill All Men" hashtag or "I Drink Male Tears" images? Because those are pretty damned hateful, even though it's apparently socially acceptable to hate men in a way that it's not for women...
(Whisper, Whisper)
Oh, that's still ok? Huh. Well, at least, no more "Men are the source of all school shootings in the world" type posts, right? Because that's a bigoted, ignorant, statement that ignores...
(Whisper, Whisper)
Huh. Well, ok, then at least they're going to block ISIS accounts and the people perpetuating the fake "Max Temkin is a Rapist" hate-crime posts, right? Because the former is a ltieral terrorist organization and the latter is a discredited hoax that people are using to try and destroy someone whose only crime is he's young, male, and heterosexu... 0000%#N$! NO CARRIER
You have been blocked for Thoughtcrime against the Party, please delete your posts to be allowed back in.
All this is going to do is give the psychotic misandric and racist losers (the so called "Social Justice Warriors," the left-wing authoritarian hate-mob that has infested the Liberals in the US) an in so they can continue to use bots to mass-report dissenting opinions and get them banned. They're already doing so, this just codifies it as official Twitter policy.
The irony and hypocrisy is palpable. The only party with the power to silence people on Twitter is Twitter itself.
Never. If the left didn't have double standards, they'd never have any standards.
Censoring free speech is awful. Not as bad as islam, but still awful. This is a mistake.
Anyone else use the Twitter API with Hadoop to analyze such things as say, hate speech? Well not anymore.
"Twitter might respond to reports that somebody is considering 'self-harm'" Well, it seemed like a good idea to roll out our new policy all in one go, but make sure there wont be any legal liability problems if we fail or choose not to act. Anyone want to bet the terms of service will protect Twitter if they report someone incorrectly to mental health professionals, and thus cause problems in that persons life?
They can censor anything they want to, or not censor anything they want to.
This isn't a 'Free Speech' issue, so all the anti-SJW's can go back to their homes, nothing more to see here.
It is, after all, a personal choice, just like choosing republican or democrat, themselves being a sort of "religion". I was born into a very republican family. Why can't I have the same protection as the Jews or Catholics? What about Scientologists? Where is the love?
Twitter is un-American! Maybe we should ban it...
Twitter is a business. You, the cattle, are free to imbibe at the trough so long as you dont:
1. kick or bite other cattle
2. produce bad milk. Just because youre the biggest user of the pasture, doesnt mean you own the farm.
Good people go to bed earlier.
I say good riddance! I never liked twitter anyway. Nice to see they're killing themselves.
I know that I'm in the minority here, but it really grinds my gears that a growing number of people constantly use the wrong nouns and adjectives to describe things. Superlatives are one thing, but intentionally using words ironically just makes you seem like a moron that shouldn't be taken seriously.
Instead of
"You may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of..."
How about
"You may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people." PERIOD
I don’t joke about harming people. It’s stupid and rude. Hell, I don’t joke about harming terrorists. I just make statements about how they need to be stopped. And there are a few cases that I believe are criminal, like threatening to kill the US president. Anyone who threatens to commit voilence or even jokes about it deserves to be smacked around (but in a figurative sense, of course).
That being said, I think that explicitly prohibiting statements like this is a can of worms that you don’t want to deal with.
Actually, twitter prohibiting this kind of speech is totally legal, because it’s a private business.
But what I’m concerned about is any time a stupid joke can be taken too seriously by humorless people in authority, and some kid’s life gets ruined because they had a moron moment.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that I believe that, with the exception of a few very rare cases, all speech should be protected, no matter how stupid it is.
And don’t get me started on this “safe zone” bullshit that’s been popping up at universities.
Wall Street already doesn't like Twitter's lack of growth and if they eliminate hateful trolls and fake accounts then Twitter is going to have to start eliminate analysts' twitter accounts as well because the projections are going to be rather 'hateful' as well.
I guess with the holiday and all, we could just go ahead and consider today Friday, right? I mean, it's not like anybody's doing any work.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Why do you hate worms so?
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>And don’t get me started on this “safe zone” bullshit that’s been popping up at universities.
safe zones are for over-privileged pre-teens pretending to be adults. Mommy should have taken them out of teh bubble wrap for a few years before sending them off to college.
Poor Twitter. Nobody understands that they're only censoring us for our own good. I love it when people do that, it gives me a warm feeling, like I just shit my pants.
It condones violence. Most movies do, in fact. Most historical events do. It's amazing how everyone would rather have a totalitarian state than microaggressions.
I'm sure this will work out fine and there won't be any problems implementing it whatsoever, nor will there be any abuse of the system.
Next up: Twitter Bans Bad Thoughts, Says They Make Baby Jesus Cry
So that's what happened to Ian Murdock. Yikes....too soon?
Kill all white people = celebrated, encouraged movement on twitter.
Kill all men = brave feminist movement that is embraced on twitter both officially and by its userbase.
Criticizing BLM members for violent acts = banned hate speech.
Criticizing a feminist for a post about literally putting all men in prison camps = ILLEGAL HATE SPEECH SHITLORD!
"You may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability or disease."
This is just a distraction so they can say.. see, we did something!
Do you see any way to report the behavior? Anyway to follow up on that report or find out the outcome? no...
Twitter ban 'dissenting political opinions'.
Twitter is free to ban whatever it chooses. It is their forum --- their platform -- not yours.
That said, free speech cannot survive in an environment that lacks civility and is open to unrelenting personal attacks and threats of violence. Hate speech is the oldest and most subtle eternal enemy of free speech.
Twitter ban 'dissenting political opinions'.
You may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability or disease.
There goes more than half of Trump's followers....
It's their site. They don't have to host you if they don't want to. There is nothing to stop you posting stuff elsewhere. But you probably knew that.
Reality is defined by the maddest person in the room
Twitter is a private business. What they allow on their service is entirely up to them. If they don't want to host somebody or some organisation, that's up to them. Not hosting somebody is not the same as censoring them and it doesn't impinge on that person's free speech.
Reality is defined by the maddest person in the room
Other than people who have a financial stake, Twitter matters less than used toilet
paper, to anyone with intelligence and common sense.
i can see it now - tweet about Palestinian ethnic cleansing - banned. tweet about reasons to justify the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians - no problem!
...in these comments.
Seeing this remided me I had an account but wondered why.
Are there any adults here today? Or just poor persecuted white boys?
And there are a few cases that I believe are criminal, like threatening to kill the US president.
Care to explain why one person's life is worth more than another to you?
did slashdot get taken over by MRA/gamergate trash
Somewhere back in 2004.
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Very good rules, our troll network successfully closed dozens of anti-Russia, anti-Putin accounts from Russia and Ukraine yesterday. You should not produce hate speech against Great Mr. Putin or Great Russia or Twitter will kill you! If you stick with loathing black monkey from DC, you will be fine.
I don't twit with the twits, but maybe I'll start. I'll have to find some nice Rev Rice quotes and twit them. I'll be happy to have my accounts flagged or flogged or modded out of existence.
A friend of mine's account was banned because she was warning people on Twitter about Aaron Brown, now going by "Timmer", who was convicted of wire fraud and embezzlement, as well as lost a lawsuit after defrauding a charity, then left the US to escape having to pay. He's highly active in the Barcelona area, professes to be a wine expert.
She's been following his activity on twitter, and tweeting people who interact with him, warning them about him.
Bam - account permanently deactivated a few weeks ago. Gone. All her tweets, years worth, gone. Nobody to talk to, nobody to appeal to, no process. Account disabled, end of story.
Twitter is now allowing scammers to use its anti-harassment policies to silence people warning others about them. Good job, Twitter...
Please help metamoderate.
Shows like RuPaul's Drag race would be banned from Twitter in a heart beat over the "hateful" things they roast contestants over.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
- C.S. Lewis
If you can't discuss the reasons you think a certain group is dangerous enough to warrant violent responses without resorting to "...the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability or disease", then you're a bigot who's trying to make flimsy excuses for your prejudices.
Stick to factual, reasoned arguments about war crimes, hate crimes, and violence perpetrated by the people you want to be violent towards, and you'll be fine.
Nope, I cannot.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
He gets (temporarily) banned from twitter for saying something along the lines of "the opposition is ugly and unable to get laid" as a joke, but when people who oppose him say the exact same thing directly to individuals, its absolutely fine.
SCOTUS: "Twitter is a corporation and entitled to free speech. Its users...not so much."
I love how some people get bent out of shape when other want to exercise their 1st Amendment rights. "Oh, but that doesn't apply here!" Oh, okay, so then corporations really are people. Which is it? Either the Bill of Rights applies to everyone, everywhere, in every case... or it doesn't.
The coddling of the American Mind:
http://www.theatlantic.com/mag...
Sigh
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"behavior intended to harass, intimidate, or use fear to silence another user's voice" includes their own TOS.
They banned their own TOS?
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Nothing about Political Ideology, I see. You wouldn't want to spoil the leftists' chief means of intimidating it's opposition, now, would you?